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The revised law is targeting not only Westerners working in China, but also Chinese nationals who work for foreign companies or organisations or interact with foreigners in any way.
Earlier this year, China updated its anti-espionage law amid an intensifying rivalry with the US and growing (…)
The trial of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing will begin on 22 September 2023, a few days after the second anniversary of their arrest.
We, the undersigned civil society groups, are deeply concerned about this case and call for the two activists’ immediate and unconditional release, as they (…)
A series of harsh convictions and new detentions, coming on the heels of high-level EU visits, demonstrate that despite its rhetoric, rule of law and universal rights remain anathema to the Chinese Communist Party. The international community needs to back words with action to prevent further (…)
Send A Postcard to Xuebing (Huang XueQin & Wang JianBing)
Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing (referred together as “Xuebing”) are an independent journalist and labour activist in mainland China, respectively. They were taken from their homes by the police in September 2021 and are currently (…)
On July 29, a Chinese court sentenced Zhou Wilin, a reporter for the human rights news website Weiquanqwang, to three years and six months in prison for reporting on human rights abuses in articles and on Twitter. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the sentencing of Zhou (…)
On 16 February 2020, just a few hours after her partner Xu Zhiyong, a leading Chinese human rights lawyer, was detained, women’s rights and labour activist Li Qiaochu went missing. China’s state security bodies would hold her incommunicado for four months under the system known as ‘residential (…)
A UN rights expert on Wednesday slammed a years-long crackdown on rights defenders and lawyers in China, highlighting the case of one attorney who disappeared after revealing he was tortured in detention.
Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, warned (…)
Rights activists and their lawyers continue to be charged, detained, disappeared and tortured according to UN special rapporteur on situation of human rights defenders.
A United Nations rights expert has slammed a years-long crackdown on rights defenders and legal professionals in China, (…)
Chinese authorities have formally arrested two detained activists, including one who called for President Xi Jinping to step down over COVID-19, relatives and fellow campaigners said Thursday.
Prominent figures Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong attended a secret meeting involving lawyers and human (…)
China human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has been sentenced to four years imprisonment and deprivation of political rights for three years following a conviction for “inciting subversion of state power.”
Yu was arrested in Xuzhou in January 2018 and was also charged with obstructing the duties of (…)
Arrested in ‘709’ crackdown, Wang says he was interrogated around the clock and held in four detention centres and two other secret locations. Authorities were determined to jail me and the courts broke their own laws, he says.
Released human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has said he committed (…)
Authorities expand detention of activists and censorship ahead of 4 June.
Chinese authorities have detained dozens of people as part of a ramped-up annual crackdown ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre .
Tuesday will mark 30 years since the bloody event, which saw (…)
A video taken on a train in southern China allegedly showed a man fondling a five-year-old girl, sparking outrage
There has been outrage in China after police dropped the investigation of a case involving a father allegedly molesting his five-year-old daughter on a train in southeastern China, (…)
All organisations promoting religious messages on the internet will have to apply for licenses
China has drawn up new draft guidelines to crack down on the “chaotic” and illegal online promotion of religion, the official Global Times reported on Tuesday, part of a tough state campaign to bring (…)
Simon I. reports on the crackdown against eight young leftist activists in China’s Guangdong province—and what it may say about future struggles.
Commuting workers arrive at the outskirts of Beijing
SINCE LAST November, a group of eight young leftist activists have been facing prosecution by (…)
Translations of letters by two of the four young activists arrested at Guangdong University of Technology two months ago, and our brief commentary. The translation of a third detainee’s letter is forthcoming.
On November 15, 2017, police stormed into a student reading group at the Guangdong (…)
China’s one-party state has long sought to silence critical voices having been concerned about maintenance of control and regime stability. Following Xi Jinping’s rise to power, the country has once again been witnessing a harder line in this respect as the regime has cracked down on various (…)
New law issued as part of President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on disloyalty to the state alarms democracy movements in Hong Kong and Macau.
China has made disrespect of the national anthem a crime punishable by up to three years in jail, as it focuses on cementing the patriotic “China dream” of (…)
Stop persecution, immediate freedom for Liu Xia
Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize Winner and a prisoner of conscience, has passed away on 13 July 2017 at age 61. Liu Xiaobo was arrested in 2008 and charged for “inciting subversion of state power”, and at the same time, his wife, Liu Xia, was under (…)
We hold the CCP government responsible for Liu Xiaobo’s pre-mature death. No one should be thrown into prison, let alone left to rot there, simply for exercising the right to free speech. The CCP even went so far as to intervene in Liu’s family’s arrangements for his funeral, scattering Liu’s (…)
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